votive candles

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I would like to know when and where the lighting of votive candles began ,I know it has been tradition but it is the extent of my knowledge . as why i'm asking is we are presently putting votive candles in front of the Blessed Virgin Mary in our chapel , also she is our patron saint. I would like to be able to write some information and keep it on file for future reference.

thank you . Paulette

-- Paulette Matovich (pmatovich@sk.sympatico.ca), October 30, 1998

Answers

http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/15509a.htm

-- Joseph L. Shetler (shetler@mail.utexas.edu), October 30, 1998.

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